Calendar
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| March 10 - May 31, 2009 | ||
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The Big Read |
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton |
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Victoria Mansion 207-772-4841 information@victoriamansion.org |
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Location: |
Various locations in Portland, Maine |
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| More info | Complete program listings available here. Portland, Maine’s Victoria Mansion is pleased to announce that it has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to host The Big Read in the Greater Portland Area and that it is the only Maine organization hosting The Big Read. Victoria Mansion is one of 208 libraries, municipalities, and arts, culture, higher education, and science organizations to receive a grant to host The Big Read from September 2008-June 2009. The Big Read gives communities the opportunity to come together to read, discuss, and celebrate one of 23 selections from American and world literature. The Big Read in Portland will focus on The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Activities will take place beginning in March 2009. website: www.victoriamansion.org |
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| March 2009 | ||
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2009 Midcoast Community Read |
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver |
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Contact: |
Leslie Mortimer 207-443-5141 lmortimer@patten.lib.me.us |
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Patten Free Library, Bath |
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| More info | website: www.midcoastreads.com | |
| February - March 2009 | ||
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York Reads! One Book, One Community |
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Three cups of tea : one man’s mission to fight terrorism and build nations—one school at a time by Mortenson, Greg and David Oliver Relin |
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Kim Erickson Myers 207-363-2818 kemyers@york.lib.me.us |
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York Public Library |
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| More info | Copies of the book will be available at the Library for $10.00 beginning in February. A variety of programs and events are currently being planned for the month of March.
website: http://www.york.lib.me.us/events.html |
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| January 2009 | ||
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Penobscot Reads |
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Finding Amy by Kate Flora and Joseph Loughlin |
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Contact: |
Barbara McDade 207-947-8336 bmcdade@bpl.lib.me.us |
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Bangor Public Library | |
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Attractive, intelligent and responsible, twenty-five year old Amy St. Laurent always called to let her family know where she was. A loving daughter, a dependable worker, and a generous soul, she won the heart of everyone she met. But one night and one man devoid of a conscience would change all that. On an October night in 2001, Amy set out to show a friend from Florida the nightlife of Portland. She played pool. She danced. She disappeared. What followed were an investigation and trial that would require the patient diligence of two police agencies, devastate her family and keep an entire state on edge for months. This is the true story of a Maine crime that changed how law enforcement agencies in the state work together. website: www.bpl.lib.me.us |
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| Kick-off Date January 26, 2009 | ||
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Program: |
2009 Midcoast Community Read |
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver |
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Contact: |
Cyndi Burne 207-725-1727 cyndi@topshamlibrary.org |
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Location: |
Kick-off date January 26, 2009 reading through February with a variety of related programs occurring in March at the 5 participating libraries: Curtis Memorial Library, Merrill Memorial Library, Patten Free Library, Topsham Public Library, Wiscasset Public Library and ourselves—Freeport Community Library. |
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| More info | Freeport Community Library has participated in the 2008 and 2009 Midcoast Community Read.
Last year’s “one book” was Shadow Divers. The 2009 book selection is Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. website: www.topshamlibrary.org |
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